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Show Juraps-Likely to Afflict Sailor in Submarine Zone Dr. J. I.. R. Vance Writes of Uncertainties of l ife on BoarJ.U. S." Ships. SlBMARINKS are not feared half a a miit'h by the men of I'ncle Kam a navy aa the "WHIIm." For the benefit of those not -familiar " with tli in colloquialism. H might Be yell to stale th.it the "Willies" are sometimes termed the "Jumps" and is ! nn f flirt inn ami i individuals under t a high nervous at rain. Gobs as well ; as offlcera of the American navy ate . susceptible, according to a letter re-; re-; reived from Dr. J. I R. Vance, son of ' Mrs. A. E. Yam-e, 376 South Fourth i l-'sHKt Strerl. Dr. Vance i 27 years old and was ! born In Ogden. He Joined the navy fifteen years ago stid on lecemier L'2. 1917, married Margaret Vnlkman at Berkeley, Cal. Following his visit to his parents In Halt Ijike last April, he went to Hampton Roads, Va.. where he was assigned to the 1. H. 8. Nor-Una. Nor-Una. . SAILOR IN WARTIME. Writing of the Jlfe of the .sailor. In ; the war gone. Ir. Vance under the heading, "Some Ship. Home Date-Some Date-Some Sea," states on October 11: "We got back yesterday from Bordeaux, Bor-deaux, Krance, and expect that w will le leaving in a few daya for 'over I there' again. It seems that they atso-j atso-j lutely will not let us poor flat-hoofed ! tarheeis rest for a moment, j i can tell you that going to sea In ! wartime is entirely different than it iwaa in the good old days of peace. This is my second trip, and I don't believe be-lieve that they will let me make but one trip more -before they give ma a Job ashore for a month to get my nerves acg In ortar-wgain. SUSPENSE ENERVATING. "Thla business of having no lights at night mhile at sea. and never know- ing what moment you are scheduled I for a trip to Davy's or a long cold swim In the big Atlantic, la something that puts us on edge. ' "It Is not fear, you know, but Just I what we call the 'Jumps something ! that makea you Jump out of your hide the moment something lets go bang around you. We wouldn't give a d if all the submarine in the ocean would come on top and give us a sur- i face fight they know that they will get very promptly sunk if they do but the thlnga atay around and get you when you least expect them, and that, you know, is enough to keep you on J edge all or th time. TROOPSHIP TORPEDOED. "We didn't have any - excitement worth mentioning this trip, but. Oh. boy! we sure got all we were looking for last trip. Wa had a pretty good scare off the coast of France when the big liner-troopship Mount Vernon Ver-non was torpedoed about a mil from ua. "We saw a few lifeboats and a lot I of wreckage floating around, but even if the former were full of shipwrecked people, we could not stop to pick them up. "That's a favorite - trick with the Huns to lay around some lifeboat and wait until you go to help the poor devils and then they let you have one healthy torpedo. So If one of us gets sunk, the rest simply go on. and you are out of luck. It doesn't pay to stop to Investigate or to try to help your fellowman in the days of hoc he warfare." |