Newspaper
Articles about Sabalo's Launching and Dedication
From the Philadelphia Evening
Post F 7
Philadelphia, Pa.
Thursday, June 1, 1944
CITY POLICE BOND WORK HONORED
Navy will Dedicate two Submarines
at Cramp's in their Honor
Dedication to
the Philadelphia Police Force of two submarines, the U.S.S. Sabalo and
the U.S.S. Sablefish, to be launched Sunday at the Cramp Shipbuilding Co.
Yard, will honor the work of the members of the force during the Fourth
War Loan.
The dedication
is believed to be the first in which a city police has been thus honored.
It is a tribute to the city's police sales of $16,800,000 in bonds in the
last war bond drive, a sum sufficient to pay for construction and equipment
of the two underseas craft.
The campaign
was conducted by the Fraternal Order of Police, of which John Ashmore is
president, and the City Police Department under Assistant Superintendent
Guy Parsons. The police plan a similar bond-selling campaign in the Fifth
War Loan, which opens June 12.
Civic officials
and officers of the armed services will witness a parade of a police contingent
through Kensington streets preceding the double launching, honoring the
339 members of the Philadelphia force now in the services.
Plaques Honor Muhs
George E. Muhs,
first member of the Philadelphia police to give his life in the present
war is mentioned in the bronze plaque which each submarine will carry,
bearing the inscription:
"This
fighting ship, sponsored and made possible by the bond purchases of the
people of the City of Philadelphia during the Fourth War Loan through the
efforts of the Fraternal Order of Police of Philadelphia in memory of George
E. Muhs, member, Philadelphia Police, World War II, 1944."
The new submarines
are named, in accord with Navy tradition, after fish. The U.S.S. Sabalo
will be sponsored by Mrs. Charles M. Oman, wife of Rear Admiral Charles
E. Oman, U.S.N., commanding officer of the Naval Convalescent Hospital
for Officers at Harriman, N.Y. The U.S.S. Sablefish will be sponsored by
Mrs. Edmund W. Burrough, wife of Captain R.W. Burrough, U.S.N., of Washington,
D.C. and mother of Lieutenant (jg) E.J. Burrough, U.S.N.
H. Birchard Taylor,
vice president of the Cramp Company will act as master of ceremonies. Addresses
will be given by P. Blair Lee, chairman, Philadelphia War Finance Committee;
Mayor Samuel, and Rear Admiral Bryson Bruce, U.S.N., Supervisor of Shipbuilding
and Naval Inspector of Ordnance at the yard.
Drive Opens in Schools
The pupils of
public and parochial schools began their war loan drive today, educational
officials deciding to let them start early because the Fifth War Loan drive
ends.
No definite goal
has been set, because it was felt the pupil's desire to beat their records
for the previous campaign, in which their bond sales totaled $3,656,098,
would be incentive enough. William J. Lowry, district superintendent, is
chairman of the schools' bond campaign.
From the Philadelphia Evening
Post
Philadelphia, Pa.
Thursday, June 5, 1944
TWO SUBMARINES LAUNCHED HERE
Vessels Honoring Hero Detective
Christened at Cramp's Yard
The submarines
Sabalo and Sablefish, each inscribed, "Tagged for Tokyo" and dedicated
to the memory of George H. Muhs, the first city detective to pay the supreme
sacrifice in this war, were launched yesterday at Cramp's shipyard.
An audience of
more than 7,000 persons, including State and city officials and a delegation
of city police, saw the pair of sleek, deadly underseas raiders slide down
the ways within 15 minutes of each other.
Muhs, a veteran
of the last war, enlisted in the Navy several months after Pearl Harbor,
and was serving as a petty officer when he was killed in action in December,
1942, in the Southwest Pacific.
His wife, Cora,
and daughter, Cora, 19, of 2043 Fraley St., and parents, Mr. And Mrs. William
Muhs, were honor guests at the launchings.
Police Sales Praised
P. Blair Lee,
War Loan drive chairman, declared at the exercises that the $16,500,000
worth of bonds sold by the city's police in the last drive, $2,500,000
in excess of its quota, was sufficient to pay for the submarines.
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