#W.J. Moore

[vancouvertrueborns]

There are a lot of great, old photos of Vancouver students, but few can beat W.J. Moore’s 1921 rendering of John Oliver’s enrollment. Moore was a commercial photographer who roamed the city with his fancy Kodak No. 8 Cirkut camera that allowed him to produce panoramic photos up to eight feet wide. When South Van High moved from 49th and Knight to Fraser and 43rd, the opening of the new building demanded a special group pic to commemorate the event and the name change. Moore used his expensive, wind-up, spring-powered camera to capture all the students and staff. The Kodak Cirkut was tricky to operate. The camera rotated atop the tripod, scanning up to 360 degrees. Subjects had to remain perfectly still while the lens was on them, but once it swept past, a prankster could run to the other side of the frame and appear twice in the same pic! Apparently, there were no jokers among these Jokers on this day, probably because their no-nonsense principal, Jake Palmer, was seated front and centre with his arms crossed – and eyes in the back of his head.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"The SDPC [Social Democractic Party of Canada] at the Lakehead appears not to have been content merely to contest elections. In 1912, having recently formed a union, the mostly immigrant workers of the Canadian Northern Coal and Ore Dock Company went on strike for better wages, hours, and working conditions. Bloodshed resulted when company officials, using local police and the militia, tried to suppress the striking coal handlers. The chief of police, two constables, and two Italian strikers were wounded. Fearing a general strike, the CNR quickly acquiesced to the demands of the coal handlers.

There was much in this incident that recalled earlier labour strife at the Lakehead. A new element, however, was the growing influence of radical socialists, who were thought to have sway over the coal handlers and to have been instrumental in their inclusion in the trade union movement. Prominent among the activists were “members of the Social Democratic Party of Canada,” including the party’s organizers for Port Arthur and Fort William, the Cobalt miners’ union leader James P. McGuire and the Reverend William Madison Hicks, as well as Herbert Barker, a volunteer organizer for the AFL. In April 1912, the three men led a number of English-speaking socialists in Fort William in establishing Ontario Local 51 of the SDPC. Initial members also included W.J. Carter; an architect named Richard Lockhead; Sid Wilson, a member of the British-based Amalgamated Carpenters; and Fred Moore, owner of the printing press that printed Urry’s The Wage Earner. Significantly, most of the members appear to have been Finnish or Ukrainian. Before the strike, members of the Fort William SDPC had spoken at meetings of the coal handlers and, in the case of Hicks, played an active role by leading a parade of workers in confronting Port Arthur mayor S.W. Ray on his way to read the Riot Act to the strikers. The meeting between the two men and the violence that ensued were coincidental, according to Morrison, as

the Social Democratic party posed no real or imagined menace to the citizens of Port Arthur … what alarmed the English-speaking community was the newly won influence of the socialists with the immigrant workers.

Supporters of the ILP [Independent Labour Party] of New Ontario such as Urry found themselves “at odds with radical socialism” as

not only had the socialists played a prominent part in the strike, though not the riot, but they were also attempting to organize Thunder Bay’s entire waterfront.

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Calls for Hicks’s arrest began to appear in newspapers in both cities and the surrounding countryside. On 1 August 1912, officials arrested him for his role in a “tumultuous assembly … likely to promote a breach of the public peace.” Shortly after Hicks’s arrest and conviction (although he received a suspended sentence), SDPC organizers began an active campaign to take control, or at the very least undermine, the ILP-led Trades and Labour Councils. Following the strike, they sought to stage a general strike on the waterfront and, ideally, spread it throughout both Port Arthur and Fort William. As Jean Morrison writes, however, this was “a move disparaged by the British labour men for its disregard of the law which required negotiations and conciliation preceding strikes by transportation workers.” The attempt failed and widened the rift formed during the municipal, provincial, and federal elections of 1908 and 1911 and the labour unrest earlier in 1912.

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The SDPC was also not left untouched. In preparation for the 1913 Fort William civic election, Urry and Hicks jointly developed in opposition to the SDPC a manifesto describing the class struggle in general and the issues facing the region’s workers in particular .... On the recommendation of the Elk Lake, Porcupine, and Cobalt locals that Hicks be expelled, the matter was referred to the Fort William membership. Despite facing the possibility that its charter would be revoked, Local 51 refused to expel Hicks and launched a vigorous defence on his behalf. The convincing agitator had a coterie of true believers, who “defended him to the last ditch refusing to believe that Hicks would do anything wrong.” He also had his critics, evidently including the 400-strong Fort William branch, which, it appears, sided with the Dominion Executive and expelled Hicks.

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With Hicks departed one highly personalized version of a response to the ambiguous legacy of Lakehead socialism. Both the ILP and the SDPC grew rapidly during 1913. The labour councils in the twin cities began to discuss unity, in the form of construction of a joint Central Labour Temple. The Finnish branch of the SDPC in Port Arthur also called out for working-class and socialist unity. Moreover, as a more tangible indication of potential unification of the socialist and labour movements, SDPC organizer Herbert Barker was elected president of the Port Arthur Trades and Labour Council in April 1913. As so often proved to be the case, however, such incipient unity was challenged by the region’s sheer class volatility. The strike by street railway workers in May 1913 was a volcanic moment. As David Bercuson writes:

The walk-out provided a focal point for much of the hatred and bitterness that had developed between labour and its enemies in the twin cities for several years.

Rioting and violence were sparked by the CPR’s attempts to use strikebreakers. When strikers overturned a streetcar operated by strikebreakers, police arrested one of the participants and, when a crowd tried to get him out of jail, fired into the crowd, killing a bystander. Local newspapers tried to pin the violence on the socialists, who were allegedly responsible for agitating the crowd. The railway workers belonged to the Trades and Labour Councils in both cities and, in a show of solidarity, both councils called for a general sympathy strike. These calls went unheeded and most workers returned to work after four days of protest. In response, Urry, James Booker, McGuire, Bryan, and many members of the SDPC met at the Finnish Labour Temple. They criticized the local trades and labour councils “for not being radical enough to resist the ruling of an unscrupulous upper class.” They hoped the councils would become “more radical.” Not surprisingly, the obviously inflamed right-wing media in the twin cities characterized the meeting as one of “sedition, anarchy, socialism, violence and most everything else calculated to worry orderly society and responsible government.” It was not a critique of the Lakehead workers reserved for the mainstream press. Mayor John Oliver of Port Arthur summed up the situation well when he argued that the continued unrest in Port Arthur and Fort William was not wholly due to working conditions. Making specific mention of the strikes of 1909, 1912, and 1913, he suggested that the unrest had been the result of socialist agitators. Oliver wrote:

There is hardly a night in the week that inflammatory speeches have not been made by several agitators … something will have to be done to either remove them or check their actions.

Interestingly, Frederick Urry and J.P. McGuire were specifically named for their alleged advocacy of a general strike. McGuire was further singled out for his reputed suggestion that it would be an easy thing to cut telephone, telegraph, and electric lines."

- Michel S. Beaulieu, Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-35. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2011. p. 37-38, 40-42

[qqueenofhades]

Feeling confused, why slavjan people = etymologically slaves. Why would people accept that as their identity, to be slaves? Back in linguistics i remember reading that there two words while similar do not share the same origin.

Okay, buckle in, kiddos. We're about to go on a long and VERY nerdy tangent about historiography, linguistics, imperialism, and how categories and identities are constructed, perceived, and perpetuated both by formal historic narrative and by the people themselves. I'll try to make this as clear (and, uh, succinct) as I can, but yes.

First off: yes, there is debate about this, as there is debate about literally everything (especially on a topic as contentious as this). However, the most generally accepted hypothesis is that the word "slave" entered English as a series of evolutions and mutations deriving from the Latin word "sclavus." This word, as Anna Kłosowska puts it in her recent exploration of medieval slavery, has connotations both of "unfree person" and "person of Slavic origin," and this isn't necessarily a "family" of separate but closely related words, but just the same word in different contexts. All of the following cites are from her book chapter (Anna Kłosowska, "The Etymology of "Slave", in Disturbing Times: Medieval Pasts, Reimagined Futures, ed. Catherine E. Karkov, Anna Kłosowska, and Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei, Punctum Books, 2020. You can read the whole book -- online for free, as a PDF! -- here. This chapter starts on page 151).

Therefore, the words that sound like the word slave in Latin vs. French, Occitan, and Italian are less a family of words than a similar word in dramatically different contexts. (p. 155) [...] This section focuses on various words used to describe enslaved people, presents some summary facts on slavery, discussed in detail in a later section concerning who was enslaved where and in what proportion to the general population, and comments on the indistinctions between the medieval words slave and serf, and slave and Slav. Indeed, one of the challenges of the topic is that in Latin servus means a free person, an unfree person, or both. Similarly, Latin sclavus and related words in other languages (French, Italian, Greek, Arabic, etc.) means an enslaved person, a person of Slavic origin, or both. And, servus often designates an enslaved person of Slavic origin as well. (p. 160).

Medieval Latin did this on several levels, not just with "Slav/slave." It also began to use the name of other ethnic groups as words meaning "unfree person," "slave," or "other":

In medieval Latin vocabulary, various words now translated as slave, including sclavus, sarracenus, maurus, denote the origin or appearance of the enslaved person. (p. 162)

"Sarracenus," or "Saracen," was one of the most common words used to describe someone of non-Christian, non-European identity; it had some correlates with "sodomite [homosexual]", which it is often found in company with. Eventually, however, "Saracen" came to mean most commonly "Muslim." But since it was also used as a word for "slave," in this case it would denote an enslaved person of Muslim origin, rather than an enslaved person of Slavic origin. The same with "maurus," or "Moor," which would probably signify an enslaved person from Iberia. This chapter explores the broad variety of words used for "slave" in medieval Latin, and the semantic shifts that all of them underwent to get there, so it's worth checking out. However, the linguistic association of "slave" and "Slav" was not confined to medieval Latin, as it was also present in Arabic. See mention of:

tens of thousands of sqâliba (the word is synonymous with enslaved person, a Slav, and a eunuch, and may have signified any one or any combination of them). (p.158)

So in other words, yes: the medieval association of "Slav = slave" was well established in both the Christian (Latin) and Islamic (Arabic) historiographical narrative traditions. But there were many other words that also meant "slave" and which referred to enslaved people of different backgrounds; there was, in fact, a whole family of words used to describe slaves from various parts of the world. However, because Latin "sclavus" was imported into French as "esclave," and from there into Middle/Modern English as "slave," we only have one remaining word for "slave" from that entire grouping, and it happens to be the one that also meant "Slav." Etc. etc., linguistic change and transformation retains the original stems long past when people actually know where the words come from or what they refer to.

So, okay, if "slave" in modern English does derive from a Latinate root also used for "Slavic," why do people still call themselves Slavs, and why do we talk about "Slavic" people and "Slavic" history? Isn't that equivalent to calling them slaves? Well, once again, the answer is complicated. Let's think of it this way. The word "Russian" comes from the word "Rus'". This name for the lands that are now generally part of modern-day Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine was given by the Viking rulers of early Rus’, and is generally believed to derive from the old Swedish word ‘Ruotsi’, or ‘men who row’.[1] The word "Rus'" originally applied only to the Scandinavian ruling princes, but eventually acquired a broader semantic connotation, expanding to first the people and then the land where they lived. In the eleventh century, it also became interchangeable with ‘Slav’.

So... the name that Russians call themselves is actually Swedish, originally given by Vikings, and referred only to the ruling class of men who rowed (i.e. were seafarers who traveled on ships) and weren't ACTUALLY Russian (in the modern sense of the word) at all. Yet nobody thinks about this original connotation or thinks that they're also calling Russians sea-faring Vikings, even if that's where the word originally came from. So people who call themselves "Slavs" aren't necessarily (or even at all) also calling themselves "people from eastern and southern Europe who became slaves in the medieval era," since "sclavus" referred to both "Slav" AND "slave." It just so happens that it became imported as one word into English, and indeed, we've now semantically re-distinguished it, since the modern English words "Slav" and "slave" are spelled differently, capitalized differently, and obviously have different meanings, despite deriving from the same word and once being essentially interchangeable. That's no longer the case, but that process is still preserved in how the word got here, and how it was selected out of a number of others.

[1] Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, 2nd ed. (New York: Basic Books, 2021), p. 25.

[corkcitylibraries]

Echoes of our Past | February 3rd 1923

Librarian Richard Forrest takes a look at news highlights published in The Echo 100 years ago this week.

Attack at Dunkettle During the night there was an attack on the military guard at Dunkettle Station, three miles east of the city. It was beaten off without much difficulty. During the skirmish a bullet entered the signal cabin through a window and damaged some instruments. The wires on the line to Youghal were also cut during the night and, as a result, the down trains this morning were delayed for about three hours.

Cork District Sessions

This morning, before Mr. D.B. Sullivan B.L. Denis Leary, 4 James Street, was charged with having been drunk and disorderly in Parnell Place last night. The disorderly conduct was that he made use of bad language outside a public house door. Defendant said he had come out of hospital only that day and that his head “was not very good”. Cornelius Cooney, an ex-soldier, was charged by Patrolman Moore with having been drunk and incapable on Half Moon Street at 1 a.m. this morning. Cooney said he had been wounded in the head and that whenever he took a pint or two he staggered. Defendant was lying on the footpath asleep. Both defendants paid fines at once and were discharged.

A Deserving Charity

A appeal will be held next Sunday for St. Mary Magdalen’s charity and a charity sermon will be preached at the North Cathedral by the Rev. J. Aherne. This charity is worthy of the best support of the citizens. Collections will be held in all churches. It is to be hoped that a generous response will be forthcoming. There are over a hundred penitents to be maintained and funds are very scarce. Many subscriptions will be needed if it is to continue its magnificent work.

 Joint Hospitals Board

Three tenders were received for the supply of a motor van. The lowest was that of W.J. Thompson, Mallow for £179 and this was accepted. The others were £188 and £201. A letter was read from the County Technical Committee asking the Board that when it makes appointments in cases where Irish is essential to accept the certificate awarded by them. The application was accepted. On the motion of Mr. O’Connell T.C., seconded by Mr. Golden (Rural District Council), the salary of Miss O’Doherty was increased by £15 a year.

Cork I.D.A. Meeting

Arising out of communication with the Marine Investigation Department, the Secretary informed the meeting that the butter on board the ss. Duchess branded “Lismore Castle Brand” was tested by experts and found to be Irish. As its origin was in dispute the Secretary had communicated with Paxman & Co., Lismore and received the following response, “We received your letter of the 24th and in reply beg to inform you that the 24 keels of butter which were shipped from Liverpool on board the ss. Duchess were Irish butter packed by ourselves. They were in storage in Bootle Cold Stores and we are getting them back for our Irish trade. We have no agent in Liverpool”. In view of the fact that Paxman’s were obliged to ship their butter to Liverpool for cold storage purposes, it was decided to get in touch with the company again and recommend the facilities offered in Cork by the Cork Pure Ice Warehousing and Cold Storage Co.

News from Around the World

112 bodies have been recovered so far from the Heinitz Pit near Beuthen, Germany after a violent explosion last Wednesday. It is feared there are still 28 bodies in the mine. Three earthquake tremors have been recorded near Ottawa. The epicentre being 6.5 kilometres away. The third was the most severe and occurred around midnight. There was some excitement in the South African Union House of Assembly caused by the close voting on the Women’s Enfranchisement Bill. It was defeated by 56 votes to 55. Some blame a woman in the gallery for shouting at the Prime Minister. Lord Carnarvon has said at Luxor that the “Ushahtl”, or small image of King Tuttankhamen is probably the finest piece that the sepulchre contains. A dredger turned turtle in the river Humber shortly after leaving the dock at Hull yesterday morning resulting in the loss of six lives.

An Arcadian Cork Ballroom

On a glorious night of light and melody during the week it was my good fortune to breathe the Arcadian atmosphere of a Cork ballroom. The laughter, the beauty, the inspiration. The sylphs who hither and thither floated. All were there. Colour and beauty of form abounded, and the world called Earth seemed far away. The soft, close-clinging garments that wrapped those swaying, slow moving figures attracted only by the beauty of their wearer. The brilliance that shone on hair and throat and delicately draped arm drew only admiration unalloyed. Beneath those bright lights, within the magic region of that sweet music, only one thought was shared, only one aspiration actuated - beauty, happiness. No queryings there concerning wealth or birth. No contemplation upon rank, station, affluence or influence. One objective guided. One inspiration sufficed. Unity of effort completed the perfect whole: “Let joy be unconfined”, and joy was the portion of all.

St. Finbarrs vs. St. Marys

The clash between St. Finbarr’s and St. Mary’s in the Poor Children’s Excursion Fund last Sunday was a strenuous contest throughout. The first half was altogether in the champion’s favour but the second balanced out. St. Mary’s is now a combination of St. Mary’s and Fair Hill players and they finally pulled together in that half though their scoring line let them down rather badly. With more practice and polish the amalgamation will take some beating. The full-time whistle left the Barrs winners by a comfortable margin. W. Aherne, Cork County Board, acted as referee and gave general satisfaction.

[bondenargentina]

“El Hombre Del Revólver De Oro”: El asesino que fue secundario a todos

Por Lucas Manuel Rodríguez* Con un presupuesto apenas inferior al de su antecesora, Vivir Y Dejar Morir (1973), la primera aventura Bond de Roger Moore, superó notablemente a la última participación de Sean Connery en la taquilla mundial. Así, la supuesta “mano invisible” del mercado cinematográfico sometió a los productores a retomar la regularidad de realizar una película por año, pero los resultados no fueron los deseados en más de un sentido.

El fin de una era familiar

El Hombre Del Revólver De Oro es la novela póstuma de Ian Fleming que se publicó en 1965, ocho meses después de su muerte. Esta obra no fue tan bien recibida por la crítica como los anteriores aportes de Fleming, y por esto los productores Harry Saltzman y Albert Broccoli le solicitaron a los guionistas, Richard Maibaum y Tom Mankiewicz, algunas modificaciones drásticas que eventualmente se tuvieron en cuenta: el conflicto no estaría centrado en la puja entre británicos y soviéticos, a Bond no le lavaría el cerebro la KGB para asesinar a su jefe (M), y las locaciones pasarían a ser asiáticas, ya que se había pensado en filmar esta película antes de Solo Se Vive Dos Veces (1967), para la cual se disponía de esos paisajes.

De esta manera, la novena Bond realizada por EON Productions se convirtió en la primera 007 proyectada, aunque no públicamente, en la Rusia Soviética, con un título que cargaba un significado duelista y no hacía quedar mal parada a su preciada KGB porque el antagonista, Francisco Scaramanga, la abandonó para trabajar como autónomo. Muy a su pesar, fue la primera y única entrega de la franquicia en no superar la recaudación de 100 millones de dólares desde el fenómeno mundial ocasionado por Goldfinger (1964), volviéndose la menos exitosa de toda la saga. Esto terminó por destapar las disputas a puerta cerrada entre Broccoli y Saltzman, y fue su última colaboración grupal en una co-producción para Hollywood.

Una intervención de la familia literaria

El ya mítico Christopher Lee, había sido descartado para el papel del agente del MI6 desde El Satánico Doctor No (1962), y esta vez probó suerte en el rol del villano de turno. Lee es recordado por los seguidores de Bond no solo por haber encarnado a Scaramanga, sino también porque era el primo postizo del creador de la serie y siempre mantuvo una relación cercana con los Fleming. Inspirada en Shane (1953) de George Stevens, los eventos de la película conducen a un encuentro “mano a mano” entre el espía británico y el catalán rebelde con un revólver dorado que está montado por elementos cotidianos como un encendedor, un estuche de cigarros y un bolígrafo. Todavía hay fanáticos que consideran que los dos personajes comparten poco tiempo en pantalla y que el duelo final está poco inspirado en ser grandioso. Como también desprecian lo poco amenazante y confusa que es la implicación del secuaz enano Nick Nack.

Sección Q ausente en la acción

Es la primera vez que vemos juntos en escena a Roger Moore y a Desmond Llewelyn como Q, cuya participación en la entrega y exposición de los artilugios característicos de la saga brilla por su ausencia. Sí le provee una prótesis para simular el tercer pezón del antagonista y hacerse pasar por él, pero no tiene ninguna relación con las persecuciones importantes del relato, como el salto en tirabuzón con el que Bond emula al reconocido motociclista Evel Knievel con un AMC Hornet rojo: filmado en una sola toma sin trucos de montaje, y realizado por primera vez en su vida por el coordinador de dobles de riesgo W.J. Milligan Jr. Los únicos dispositivos electrónicos que vemos en la película son los que usa Scaramanga, y la única función de Q es explicar cómo es posible todo lo que hace el villano, o en otras palabras, justificar verbalmente las decisiones del guión, aunque eso se salva con las interacciones cómicas de un M (Bernard Lee) que, indignado por la inactividad de su subalterno, lo deja hablar poco y nada.

Un tratamiento femenino nada favorable

Se maneja de un modo humorístico con el cual se puede discrepar o no, pero la participación de las mujeres en esta entrega alienta en sobremanera a las lecturas que reducen a “Bond” y “misoginia” a una degradación banal propia de consumidores que no toleran la inclusión del feminismo. Britt Ekland no tiene mucho por aportar porque su personaje, Mary Goodnight, fue escrito para hacer una torpeza detrás de la otra: en criollo, es la “rubia tarada”. Esto no pasó desapercibido por la prensa en su momento, el Sunday Mirror la describió despectivamente como “una agente británica rubia sorprendentemente estúpida”.

Por otro lado, Maud Adams está espléndida como Andrea Anders, la amante del villano, pero cuenta con momentos en los que es agredida y que difícilmente sean defendibles hoy, al punto de que Moore se sintió incómodo cuando el director Guy Hamilton le indicaba que tenía que abofetearla. Adams ocuparía un protagonismo más esencial en un futuro film de 007, como otra protagonista que sería más recordada porque es quien le da el título a la película: Octopussy (1983).

La intención de recordar al cine más artístico

Después de dirigir cuatro 007s y tres consecutivas, Guy Hamilton anticipaba que quería dejar la saga porque consideraba que se necesitaban nuevas ideas frescas y él ya había agotado las suyas. En su última colaboración se sacó el gusto de brindar una suerte de carta de amor al cine que en ese momento e incluso ahora se lo considera indispensable para la formación de los directores de todo el mundo. La mayoría de ellas están en la primera y la última escena que tienen lugar en el “laberinto del terror” de Scaramanga: los espejos de La Dama de Shanghai (1947), de Orson Welles; las espirales de Vertigo (1958), de Alfred Hitchcock; los marcos de puertas desiguales de El Gabinete del Doctor Caligari (1920, Robert Wiene), propios expresionismo alemán, que también aparecen en los interiores del crucero Queen Elizabeth. Todos estos son elementos que no se corresponden fluidamente con la historia que se desarrolla durante dos horas, ni tampoco con la canción principal de Lulu, que es demasiado literal y para nada sutil respecto a la figura de Scaramanga y lo que hace. Hamilton no fue despedido como suele decirse, decidió irse para siempre después de hacer esta película, y siempre dijo que nunca disfrutó de ver sus películas porque detecta fallas que nadie ve, incluida la mismísima Goldfinger.

Ficha Técnica: Título original: The Man With The Golden Gun. Año: 1974. Duración: 125 min. País: Reino Unido. Dirección: Guy Hamilton. Guión: Richard Maibaum, Tom Mankiewicz. Música: John Barry. Fotografía: Ted Moore, Oswald Morris. Edición: Raymond Poulton, John Shirley. Reparto: Roger Moore, Christopher Lee, Britt Ekland, Maud Adams, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn, Bernard Lee. Productora: Eon Productions. Distribución: United Artists. Productores: Albert R. Broccoli, Harry Saltzman. – Datos de producción extraídos del material extra y los audiocomentarios del Blu-ray editado en 2012.  – *Licenciado en Comunicación Social por la Universidad Nacional de Quilmes. E-mail: lucasmanuel9894@gmail.com.

[35joni]

Postcard

High Street Mansfield ca. 1890-ca. 1895

Shows High Street, Mansfield and the premises of W.J. Nicholas, Butcher, Gardner's Commercial Hotel and premises of Moore, store-keeper. A group of people are gathered under the butcher shop awning looking toward the photographer.

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[vancouvertrueborns]

There used to be a wind-driven water pump on the banks of the North Arm of the Fraser near the foot of Nanaimo Street in the 1920s. It belonged to Corporal William Rowling and was similar to the classic model, which peppered the American west and is shown here in colour. Aldo Stradiotti, who grew up in the Fraserview neighbourhood and passed away in 1988, recalls old timers saying that the pump pushed water uphill for Rowling’s logging operations.

The windmill is visible in the detail from the 1920s W.J. Moore panorama, as is the roof of the Rowling Station interurban stop beside the tracks. A typical interurban stop is shown in the third pic.

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William Moore, "The Vvhole Art of Surveying of Land Made Easy: An Atlas to the Spread of Typhoid Fever" (W.J. Adams ..., 1897)

[goldeagleprice]

WW II remembered on inscribed notes

By Mark Hotz

I have received a lot of positive feedback on the past few articles on interesting war-related signed currency, and so I have decided to continue this series for a few more months. This month we will be starting World War II, a conflict that produced countless numbers of inscribed bank notes, many of which are the familiar “short snorter” type described in previous articles.

I have been collecting these for years, and so have around 100 or more at this point. I always tried to pick out notes that told some sort of story: be it the name of a ship, the date of a flight and locations, and other pertinent information. All too many short snorters encountered just have the signatures of a group of officers and/or soldiers/sailors, without any linking content.

So this month I have chosen eight notes as a representative sampling of the types of World War II-inscribed notes and short snorters that collectors might encounter. It is worth pointing out that most of these notes tend to be on $1 Hawaii overprint or $1 North Africa Yellow Seal notes, as well as Series 1935-A $1 Silver Certificates and the occasional 1928 “funnyback types.” Additionally, countless foreign notes with signatures of American troops are available, and I will present some of those in the future.

Fig. 1. This Hawaii $1 short snorter bears signatures of buddies heading to or from a beach landing aboard the ‘USS Laurens.’

First, we will look at a $1 Hawaii note, which is covered with signatures that seem to be just first names or “nicknames.” Inscribed along the back top margin is “Wallace ABOARD THE U.S.S. LAURENS.” On both sides are written the names of his buddies: Seifirth, Larimore, Perron, Hale, Turner, Hudson, Ed Karpo, and William R. Liggio.

The U.S.S. Laurens (APA-153) was an Auxiliary Personnel Attack ship used to unload troops who assault enemy held beaches. It was 14,900 tons fully loaded and 436’ overall length. It was a Victory ship built in 1944 or 1945. The signatures on the bill are likely from a Marine or Army unit enroute to or from a landing. The Laurens was commissioned late in the war. Our major landings in those years were the Marianas (June 1944), Philippines (September 1944), Iwo Jima (February 1945) and Okinawa (June 1945).

Fig 2. Sgt. George Whited recorded his long flight from Fortaleza, Brazil to Dakar, French West Africa (now Senegal) on this $1 1935-A Silver Certificate.

Second, we have a Series of 1935-A $1 Silver Certificate inscribed on the face as follows: “Sgt. George C. Whited flew the Atlantic Ocean on March 16, 1944. Distance of 1962 miles in 11 hours and 42 minutes from Fortaleza Brazil to Dakar French West Africa.” The note bears the attesting signature of Jimmy Moore and the face side has five signatures of the airplane crew.

Fig. 3. John Miles recorded his double crossing of the “Inter-Date Line” going to theatre on a B-29 and then going home on a B-29 on Oct. 28, 1945.

Third, we have another $1 Hawaii note inscribed on the back, as follows: “Short Snorter 3/15/45 John R. Miles. Crossed Inter-Date going over seas on B-29. In B-29 crossed the Inter-Date Line going home 10/28/45.” In the center of the back of the note are signatures of his friends on the flight home: Leonard L. Polk, Roger L. Bonfils, Stanley A. Lane, Carl A. Guffre, Stanley L. Blounts, etc.

Fig. 4. K.E. Barnum recorded his flight from Guadalcanal to Tarawa on Feb. 11, 1945. He also wrote “SHORT SNORTER” on the note.

Fourth, another $1 Hawaii inscribed on the back: “Bo. No. 39557 Feb. 11, 1945 K.E. BARNUM. SHORT SNORTER. GUADALCANAL – TARAWA” (above). On the face of the note, the captain of the plane has written: “Flew from Guadal Canal/Tarawa/Canton Island/Palmyra Atoll/Honolulu –S.L. Poquerane, Capt. U.S.N.” (below).

Fig. 5. On the face of the Barnum note (Fig. 4 above), the flight captain recorded the entire flight from Guadalcanal to Honolulu with the various stops along the way.

Canton Island was originally part of the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands. In 1938, Pan Am Airways built an airfield on it to be used as a stopover on its route from Hawaii to New Zealand. American forces occupied it during World War II, enlarged the airfield, and used it for various aircraft between 1942 and 1943. Palmyra Atoll, located midway between Hawaii and American Samoa, was the site of the Palmyra Atoll Naval Air Station between 1941 and 1947.

Fig. 6. An anonymous serviceman bade goodbye to Honolulu and greetings to Eniwetok Atoll on Dec. 4, 1944.

Fifth, yet another $1 Hawaii. This one is very simple yet poignant. On the face, in bright blue ink: “Aloha-Oahu Nov. 16, 1944. Hafa Cheluho. Eniwetok, Dec. 4, 1944.” (“Goodbye Oahu, How are you?”) in the Chamorro language of Guam Eniwetok (“Atoll”).

Fig. 7. This short snorter on a $1 North Africa note records Leroy Weil’s travels in North Africa (Casablanca) and to Italy during 1943 and 1944.

Next, we have a $1 North Africa (Yellow Seal) note that is chock full of signatures. Around the face periphery it reads: “Short Snorter Leroy R. Weil CASABLANCA – 1943.” Along the back it shows other places the note went: Rome, St. Vittore, Monte Cassino, etc. and bears the signatures of other soldiers and marines met along the way. Some of the signatures I can make out are: Mark Reardon, Joseph J. Connally, W.J. Butler, William W. Smith, James Lunning, Angus Towne, Roger Sebbag, and Elmer H. Hagle, 2nd Lt.

Fig. 8. This Hawaii $1 note bearing signatures of the flight crew records of flight from Windsor, Ontario, Canada to Dawson Creek, Alaska and then on to Pearl Harbor on April 4, 1943.

Seventh, another $1 Hawaii note, with a simple inscription around the back margins: “Short Snorter from Windsor, Ont., Canada to Dawson Creek, Alaska to Pearl Harbor. April 4, 1943.” Six signatures of the flight crew are at the far right.

Fig. 9. Col. Hoffman offers “Good Luck” to Generalissimo Chiang kai-Shek and Nationalist China on this 1935-A $1 Silver Certificate, circa 1949.

Last, but certainly not least, a Series of 1935-D $1 Silver Certificate star note, inscribed on the face as follows: “Good Luck / Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and /Nationalist China/ Col. P.J. Hoffman.” Since the 1935-D notes were issued after 1949, this inscription probably refers to either the final fight between Nationalist and Communist Chinese forces on the mainland, or the establishment of Nationalist China on Taiwan.

Part of the fun of collecting these numismatic souvenirs of World War II is that they tell a story of a particular serviceman, where he went, and where he might have been on a certain day. The difficulty is deciphering the signatures themselves. Not only because they are in often sloppy cursive, but mainly because the signatures often blend in with the design of the currency, especially the portrait and the dark green panels on the backs. However, with some perseverance one can garner good information.

In coming months, I will present to you various notes bearing signatures of famous or well-known personages of the time: politicians, military leaders, entertainers, etc. All of these are notes that I found by deciphering the signatures myself—none were purchased with the signatures already identified.

Thank you all for your support of my various articles in Bank Note Reporter over lo these long 20 years of writing. I will get back the theme of “Notes on National Banks” in due time. In the meantime, I hope you will continue to enjoy seeing interesting items from my personal collection. Best personal wishes for a prosperous and joyous New Year.

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CONFIDENTIAL WAR DIARY -OF-

18th CANADIAN BATTALION – 2nd CANADIAN DIVISION

From 1st June to 31th June 1917 Volume 22

With appendicies 1-3

Place Date Hour Summary of Events and Information   1   Map reference WILLERVAL 1/20,000

  Battalion in Brigade Support with H.Qrs at T.27.d.3.5.

  During the night Battalion was relieved by 15th Canadian Battalion and the whole of the 4th Brigade moved back to RIDGE Line with H.Qrs at ZIVY CAVE.

  2 12 noon. Battalion relieved by the 7th Canadian Battalion and moved back into Reserve camp near NEUVILLE-ST-VAST. Lieut. H.N. Bawden admitted to hospital (sick).   3 10. a.m. 4th Canadian Infantry Brigade relieved the 1st Canadian Infantry Brigade. 18th Battalion marched back to billets in BARLIN[i]. 6 o.rs rejoined from hospital. 2 instructors from Canadian Corps Gymnastic Staff attached to Battalion for instructional purposes. BARLIN 4   Battalion resting and settling down in billets. “ 5   Battalion Pay and Bath parades. 9 o.rs returned from hospital. “ 6   Clothing parades and completion of Bath parades. Lieut. C.H. Biscoe and 42 o.rs arrived as reinforcements, many of them old men rejoining.[ii] “ 7   Inspection of Companies by Company Commanders. Syllabus of training to be carried out (attached). 7 o.rs arrived as reinforcements. “ 8[iii] Morning

    Afternoon

Company parades and training. Specialists training under qualified instructors.

  Recreational training and sports. 2 o.rs admitted to hospital.

“ 9 Morning

  Afternoon

Physical training under special instructors.

  Recreational training.

“ 10 9. a.m. Church parade. Remainder to day spent in recreation. 3 o.rs admitted to hospital. “ 11 Morning Training according to syllabus. Afternoon, recreational training. Lieut. L.A. Bissell and 18 o.rs arrived as reinforcements. “ 12 Morning “C” Company on specialist training under specialists Officers. “A. B. & D” coys training according to syllabus. Lieut. H.N. Bawden and 15 o.rs returned from hospital.

  A Horse show was held by Brigade at which we gained 1 second and 2 third prizes.

“ 13 Morning “B” Company at ranges on Musketry instruction. Special training by R.S.M. Price[iv] of N.C.Os. 52 o.rs arrived as reinforcements. 3 o.rs returned from hospital. “ 14   Battalion training to according to syllabus. 3 o.rs accidentally wounded. “ 15[v]   Battalion sports held at RUITZ. Races, Tug of War, Football and Wrestling during the day and a concert in the evening by the Battalion Band. “ 16 Morning Training according to syllabus. 48 o.rs arrived as reinforcements. 5 o.rs returned from hospital. “ 17 9.a.m. Church parade. “C” Company on Musketry at ranges. Afternoon being spent in recreational exercise. Battalion Football team played and beat the 4th M.G. coy in competion [sic] for the Divisional Championship. “ 18 9.15.a.m. Battalion parade to Brigade sports. Battalion Football team making a draw with 20th Battalion for Brigade Championship. Prizes were presented at the close by Brig-General R. Rennie, C.M.G., V.O., D.S.O. “ 19 Morning “A” and “D” companies on special training under Physical instructors. “B” and “C” on usual syllabus training. “ 20 “ Syllabus training. 11.15.a.m. Battalion parade.   21 “ “D” Company on Musketry at Ranges. “C” Company on Specialist training, remainder of Battalion carrying on with usual syllabus of training. 5 o.rs admitted to hospital.   22   Training according to syllabus. Lt.-Col. L.E. Jones proceeded on leave. Major J.A. McIntosh assumed command of the Battalion.   23   Company bath parades in morning. Voluntary parade to Divisional sports in the afternoon, Lieut. W.S. Caldwell[vi], J.G. Doherty, J.D. Parsons arrived as reinforcements.   24 9.a.m. Church parade. 3 o.rs returned from hospital. Lieut. J. M. Fisher returned from leave.   25   Parade of all casuals for Musketry training at ranges. Company training as per syllabus. 1 o.r. admitted to hospital (injured).   26   Company inspections. Platoon training in attack. Physical training and Bayonet fighting. Major W.J. Gander and 4 o.rs admitted to hospital (sick).   27   Commanding Officer’s inspection of Companies and Units. 3 o.rs returned from hospital. Capt. J.S. Bell rejoined the Battalion from Divisional school.   28 11.a.m. Battalion inspected by G.O.C. 2nd Canadian Division. Battalion paraded in full marching order at 10 a.m. and was highly complimented on their smart appearance.   29   Platoon training in attack and Bayonet fighting. Lieuts. H.L. Mitchell and H.B. Johnson arrived as reinforcements.   30   Company inspections. Close order and Arm drill. Battalion parade at 11.00 a.m. 2 o.rs admitted to hospital.

  53730 L/Sgt. Sifton E.W. (Killed in Action 9.4.17) Awarded VICTORIA CROSS. “For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty.  During the attack in enemy trenches Sjt. Sifton’s company was held up by machine gun fire which inflicted many casualties. Having located the gun he charged it single-handed, killing all the crew.  A small enemy party advanced down the trench, but he succeeded in keeping these off till our men had gained the position.  He was killed just as he returned with the second man.In carrying out this gallant act he was killed, but his conspicuous valour undoubtedly saved many lives and contributed largely to the success of the operation.”

Appendix 1

18TH (WESTERON ONTARIO) CANADIAN BATTALION. SYLLABUS OF TRAINING. MUSKETRY COURSE

Instruction on Aiming and Trigger Pressing                 2 hours.

Instruction in indication and recognition of Targets 2 hours

On the Range 8 hours.

(Practice in 1 and 2 to be carried on my units not actually firing.)

Lieutenant Actg/Adjt. 18th (Western Ontario) Canadian Battalion

5.6.17.

18TH (WESTERON ONTARIO) CANADIAN BATTALION. SYLLABUS OF TRAINING – 3 WEEKS _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Tuesday 5.6.17

1ST WEEK

Organization – Drill and Discipline 4 days

Musketry – 1 day

Brigade Route March 1 day

Each Day – Mornings

Gas helmet drill, saluting etc. 1 hour

Physical Training and Bayonet Fighting 1 hour

Squad and Platoon Drill 1 hour

Arm drill ½ hour

At disposal of Platoon Commanders ½ hour

Afternoons

Training of Specialists –                                          2 hours per day.

  2ND WEEK

Platoon Training 4 days.

Musketry – 1 day

Brigade Route March 1 day

For the week – Mornings

Close order drill                 2 hours

Physical Training and Games 2 hours

Extended order Drill 4 hour

The value of the different weapons and their independence.                                                                 1 hour

Formation of Platoon for Attack 1 hour

The Platoon in the Attack – open warfare                                                                 4 hours

The Platoon in Trench Attack 2 Hours

Afternoons

Training of Specialists –                                          2 hours per day.

  3RD WEEK

Company Training 4 days.

Musketry – 1 day

Brigade Route March 1 day

For the week – Mornings

Close order drill                 2 hours

Physical Training and Games 2 hours

The Attack by stages as a Drill 6 hours

1st Stage – Artillery Formation.

2nd Stage – Extension into lines.

3rd Stage – Building up a Firing Line.

4th Stage – The Assualt.

5th Stage Consolidation and Protection.

Tactical exercise on new ground involving the above                                                                 3 hours

The Trench Attack 3 hours

Afternoons

Training of Specialists –                                          2 hours per day.

  Appendix 2

18TH (WESTERON ONTARIO) CANADIAN BATTALION.

The Battalion Sports will be held on Friday June 15th at the Y.M.C.A. Grounds RUITZ, at 3.00 p.m.

The following events will be staged:

100 yards race 220 yards race 440 yards race (obstacle) 1 Mile Race. Boat Race. 100 Yards Band Race. 3 Legged Race. Sack Race. Long Jump (Standing) High Jump Horse-back Wrestling. Mule Race. Tug-of-War (8 men per team) Blind-fold Respirator Race.

Entries for the 100 yards, 220 yards and Long Jump are limited to 4 per Company.

Entries for various events to be handed in to Battalion Orderly Room by 12.00 noon June 14th.

Battalion Football Championship will be decided, followed by a Concert.

Officers are earnestly request to make inquiries among their Companies for singers and entertainers for this Concert.

Special Feature

Tug-of-War between “Q.M. Details” (Captained by Bandmaster G.W. Thomas[vii]) and “Transport Section” (Captained by Sgt. H. Green) will be decided as the result of challenge by the letter.

    PROGRAMME OF 4TH CANADIAN INFANTRY BRIGADE SPORTS CHATEAU GROUNDS COUPIGNY

TIME EVENT REMARKS 1 10.00 a.m. OUTDOOR BASEBALL FINAL 2 11:30 a.m. FOOTBALL FINAL 3 11:30 a.m. OFFICERS INDOOR BASEBALL FINAL AFTERNOON 4 02:00:00 100 YARD DASH (OFFICERS) 5 02:15:00 100 YARD DASH (OTHER RANKS) 6 02:30:00 220 YARD DASH (OTHER RANKS) 7 02:40:00 1 MILE RELAY (OTHER RANKS) 8 02:50:00 OFFICERS RELAY RACE (440 YARDS) 9 03:00:00 HIGH JUMP – FINALS (OPEN) 10 03:00:00 RUNNING ROAD JUMP (OPEN) 11 03:15:00 TUG OF WAR 12 03:30:00 OBSTACLE RACE (OPEN) 13 03:30:00 SACK RACE 14 03:30:00 THREE LEGGED RACE 15 03:45:00 BAND RACE 16 04:00:00 BOAT RACE 17 04:00:00 BLINDFOLD RACE 18 04:15:00 MULE RACE 19 04:30:00 HORSEBACK WRESTLING 20 04:45:00 BOXING – WEIGHT 12O Pounds BOXING – WEIGHT 135 Pounds BOXING – WEIGHT 145 Pounds BOXING – WEIGHT 160 Pounds and over 05:45:00 OFFICERS MOUNTS JUMPING 06:00:00 PRESENTATION of PRIZES by BRIG-GENERAL R. RENNIE C.M.G., M.V.O., D.S.O.

      OFFICIALS   HON. MARSHALL OF THE FIELD   BRIG-GENERAL R. RENNIE C.M.G., M.V.O., D.S.O. HON. JUDGES   Lieut.-Col. L.H. MILLEN HON JUDGES   Lieut.-Col. H.V. RORKE D.S.O. HON JUDGES   Lieut.-Col. L.E. JONES HON JUDGES   Lieut.-Col. T.F. ELMITT JUDGES   Major D.E. MACINTYRE, D.S.O., M.C. JUDGES   Major H.E. HATCH JUDGES   Major G.H. MUSGROVE JUDGES   Major W. FORBES-MITCHELL, D.S.O. CLERK OF COURSE   Major H.D. FEARMAN, D.S.O. STARTER   Captain H.C. PATTERSON, Y.M.C.A. ASST. STARTER   Captain MOORE, Y.M.C.A.[viii] TIMER (TRACK EVENTS) Captain R.N. JAGO SCORERS (FIELD EVENTS) Captain E.V. BENJAMIN, M.C.     Lieut. A.P. CHRISTMAS SCORER (BOXING) Major C.E. SINCLAIR, M.C. ANNOUNCERS   R.S.M. T.F. JORDAN, M.C., 21st Bn.     R.S.M. J. COLLETT, 20th Bn.

    [i] Barlin is a commune west of Lens approximately 15 kilometers.

[ii] The reference to “old men rejoining” is unclear but is probably alluding to men of the original draft of the Battalion who joined between October 1914 and March 1915 are returning to the Battalion after being wounded or ill and upon completion of their rest and refitting in England and in France.

[iii] On June 8, 1917 a SPECIAL ORDER was forwarded to all units. This order was a letter to the members of the Canadian Corps by Lieutenant-General Julian Byng saying “Goodbye” to the Corps.

[iv] The identity of this soldier has not been confirmed. Possibly Price, George:  Service no. 928158.

[v] See Appendix 2.

[vi] Lt. Caldwell was one of the 18th Battalion “originals” and rose from the ranks. See his digitized service record for more information.

[vii] Soldier not identified at this time.

[viii] Soldier unknown at time of post.

War Diary of the 18th Battalion: June 1917 CONFIDENTIAL WAR DIARY -OF- 18th CANADIAN BATTALION – 2nd CANADIAN DIVISION From 1st June to 31th June 1917…

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WW II remembered on inscribed notes

By Mark Hotz

I have received a lot of positive feedback on the past few articles on interesting war-related signed currency, and so I have decided to continue this series for a few more months. This month we will be starting World War II, a conflict that produced countless numbers of inscribed bank notes, many of which are the familiar “short snorter” type described in previous articles.

I have been collecting these for years, and so have around 100 or more at this point. I always tried to pick out notes that told some sort of story: be it the name of a ship, the date of a flight and locations, and other pertinent information. All too many short snorters encountered just have the signatures of a group of officers and/or soldiers/sailors, without any linking content.

So this month I have chosen eight notes as a representative sampling of the types of World War II-inscribed notes and short snorters that collectors might encounter. It is worth pointing out that most of these notes tend to be on $1 Hawaii overprint or $1 North Africa Yellow Seal notes, as well as Series 1935-A $1 Silver Certificates and the occasional 1928 “funnyback types.” Additionally, countless foreign notes with signatures of American troops are available, and I will present some of those in the future.

Fig. 1. This Hawaii $1 short snorter bears signatures of buddies heading to or from a beach landing aboard the ‘USS Laurens.’

First, we will look at a $1 Hawaii note, which is covered with signatures that seem to be just first names or “nicknames.” Inscribed along the back top margin is “Wallace ABOARD THE U.S.S. LAURENS.” On both sides are written the names of his buddies: Seifirth, Larimore, Perron, Hale, Turner, Hudson, Ed Karpo, and William R. Liggio.

The U.S.S. Laurens (APA-153) was an Auxiliary Personnel Attack ship used to unload troops who assault enemy held beaches. It was 14,900 tons fully loaded and 436’ overall length. It was a Victory ship built in 1944 or 1945. The signatures on the bill are likely from a Marine or Army unit enroute to or from a landing. The Laurens was commissioned late in the war. Our major landings in those years were the Marianas (June 1944), Philippines (September 1944), Iwo Jima (February 1945) and Okinawa (June 1945).

Fig 2. Sgt. George Whited recorded his long flight from Fortaleza, Brazil to Dakar, French West Africa (now Senegal) on this $1 1935-A Silver Certificate.

Second, we have a Series of 1935-A $1 Silver Certificate inscribed on the face as follows: “Sgt. George C. Whited flew the Atlantic Ocean on March 16, 1944. Distance of 1962 miles in 11 hours and 42 minutes from Fortaleza Brazil to Dakar French West Africa.” The note bears the attesting signature of Jimmy Moore and the face side has five signatures of the airplane crew.

Fig. 3. John Miles recorded his double crossing of the “Inter-Date Line” going to theatre on a B-29 and then going home on a B-29 on Oct. 28, 1945.

Third, we have another $1 Hawaii note inscribed on the back, as follows: “Short Snorter 3/15/45 John R. Miles. Crossed Inter-Date going over seas on B-29. In B-29 crossed the Inter-Date Line going home 10/28/45.” In the center of the back of the note are signatures of his friends on the flight home: Leonard L. Polk, Roger L. Bonfils, Stanley A. Lane, Carl A. Guffre, Stanley L. Blounts, etc.

Fig. 4. K.E. Barnum recorded his flight from Guadalcanal to Tarawa on Feb. 11, 1945. He also wrote “SHORT SNORTER” on the note.

Fourth, another $1 Hawaii inscribed on the back: “Bo. No. 39557 Feb. 11, 1945 K.E. BARNUM. SHORT SNORTER. GUADALCANAL – TARAWA” (above). On the face of the note, the captain of the plane has written: “Flew from Guadal Canal/Tarawa/Canton Island/Palmyra Atoll/Honolulu –S.L. Poquerane, Capt. U.S.N.” (below).

Fig. 5. On the face of the Barnum note (Fig. 4 above), the flight captain recorded the entire flight from Guadalcanal to Honolulu with the various stops along the way.

Canton Island was originally part of the British Gilbert and Ellice Islands. In 1938, Pan Am Airways built an airfield on it to be used as a stopover on its route from Hawaii to New Zealand. American forces occupied it during World War II, enlarged the airfield, and used it for various aircraft between 1942 and 1943. Palmyra Atoll, located midway between Hawaii and American Samoa, was the site of the Palmyra Atoll Naval Air Station between 1941 and 1947.

Fig. 6. An anonymous serviceman bade goodbye to Honolulu and greetings to Eniwetok Atoll on Dec. 4, 1944.

Fifth, yet another $1 Hawaii. This one is very simple yet poignant. On the face, in bright blue ink: “Aloha-Oahu Nov. 16, 1944. Hafa Cheluho. Eniwetok, Dec. 4, 1944.” (“Goodbye Oahu, How are you?”) in the Chamorro language of Guam Eniwetok (“Atoll”).

Fig. 7. This short snorter on a $1 North Africa note records Leroy Weil’s travels in North Africa (Casablanca) and to Italy during 1943 and 1944.

Next, we have a $1 North Africa (Yellow Seal) note that is chock full of signatures. Around the face periphery it reads: “Short Snorter Leroy R. Weil CASABLANCA – 1943.” Along the back it shows other places the note went: Rome, St. Vittore, Monte Cassino, etc. and bears the signatures of other soldiers and marines met along the way. Some of the signatures I can make out are: Mark Reardon, Joseph J. Connally, W.J. Butler, William W. Smith, James Lunning, Angus Towne, Roger Sebbag, and Elmer H. Hagle, 2nd Lt.

Fig. 8. This Hawaii $1 note bearing signatures of the flight crew records of flight from Windsor, Ontario, Canada to Dawson Creek, Alaska and then on to Pearl Harbor on April 4, 1943.

Seventh, another $1 Hawaii note, with a simple inscription around the back margins: “Short Snorter from Windsor, Ont., Canada to Dawson Creek, Alaska to Pearl Harbor. April 4, 1943.” Six signatures of the flight crew are at the far right.

Fig. 9. Col. Hoffman offers “Good Luck” to Generalissimo Chiang kai-Shek and Nationalist China on this 1935-A $1 Silver Certificate, circa 1949.

Last, but certainly not least, a Series of 1935-D $1 Silver Certificate star note, inscribed on the face as follows: “Good Luck / Gen. Chiang Kai-shek and /Nationalist China/ Col. P.J. Hoffman.” Since the 1935-D notes were issued after 1949, this inscription probably refers to either the final fight between Nationalist and Communist Chinese forces on the mainland, or the establishment of Nationalist China on Taiwan.

Part of the fun of collecting these numismatic souvenirs of World War II is that they tell a story of a particular serviceman, where he went, and where he might have been on a certain day. The difficulty is deciphering the signatures themselves. Not only because they are in often sloppy cursive, but mainly because the signatures often blend in with the design of the currency, especially the portrait and the dark green panels on the backs. However, with some perseverance one can garner good information.

In coming months, I will present to you various notes bearing signatures of famous or well-known personages of the time: politicians, military leaders, entertainers, etc. All of these are notes that I found by deciphering the signatures myself—none were purchased with the signatures already identified.

Thank you all for your support of my various articles in Bank Note Reporter over lo these long 20 years of writing. I will get back the theme of “Notes on National Banks” in due time. In the meantime, I hope you will continue to enjoy seeing interesting items from my personal collection. Best personal wishes for a prosperous and joyous New Year.

Readers may address questions or comments about this article to Mark Hotz directly by email at markbhotz@aol.com.

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